The Sun. — London, England, 1838-08-05 00:00:00

MEMOIR OF MARSHAL SOULT. Marshal Soult is one of the most remark-. able men that have figured during the last half century—a period fertile, beyond almost any other recorded in history, in warriors, civilians, statesmen—indeed, in every species of intellec tual greatness. His early youth was spent in the wars of the Revolution, when the Jacobins, headed by Robespierre, were Lords of the ascendant throughout France; his manhood was devoted to upholding the glories of the Con sulate and the Empire; and his age is dedicated to the service of the only monarch that France has ever known, who was called to the throne by the unanimous suffrages of the people. The very name of this distinguished veteran acts on the imagination like a spell. It reminds us of that heated and enthusiastic period, when a whole nation rushed under the banners 'of the Republic to the frontiers, and, single-handed, successfully resisted, under the clever but un principled Dumourier, the attacks of the Euro pean coalition ; of the unparalleled Reign of Terror, when thousands of the bravest and best in France were led out to the scaffold—a fate, which the subject of the following Memoir only escaped by his then comparatively inferior rank in the army ; and of that dazzling phe nomenon, the Empire, and its illustrious bead, Napoleon, who, like the Egyptian Scsostris, bound Kings to his chariot wheels. Fleurus —the Camp of Boulogne—Austerlitz—Eylau —Corunna--Bautzen—mention but these stir ring names, and Soult instantly occurs to one's recollection. He occupies in modern military history a place inferior only to that occupied by Napoleon and Wellington. An abler soldier never wielded the Marshal's truncheon. His was not the mere physical bravery of a Ney, a Lannes, or a Murat ; he had—for as a war rior, we speak of him in the past tense—far higher qualities, combining the cool, sagacious bead of a Turenne, with the chivalric nature of a Cond6. Among those of the Revolu tionary and Imperial Generals who are still in existence, Bernadotte alone, the present King of Sweden, is considered his equal ; and there are not a few of the French military Memoir writers, who consider Soult his superior in skill and quickness of conception and com bination. _ This distinguished soldier was born March 29th, in the year 1769, at St. Aurans, in the Department of Tarn. From earliest boyhood he was haunted by a wish to follow the drum, and accordingly, in his sixteenth year he en tered the army, and after spending some time in the Royal Regiment of Artillery, became sub-lieutenant of grenadiers. At this period, not having birth or fortune, or connexions to recommend him, he hadlittle chance of obtain ing much higher promotion, for the aristocratic regulations of the army were in full force ; but the Revolution breaking out soon afterwards, all the exclusive privileges of the old French Noblesse were swept away with the suddenness and violence of a mountain torrent ; and a broad, easy, and sure path was opened to talent, of which Soult, together with many other sol diers of fortune, who subsequently won high renown in arms, was not slow to avail himself. Under Hoche, the Pacificator of La Vendee, who died too soon for his country, but not for his own fame—and then under Jourdan, the rival in military tactics of Marceau—young Soult rendered himself conspicuous by a bravery which was always amenable to the dictates of a sound discretion. At the celebrated battle of Fleurus, in particular, which saved France from Austrian invasion, his judgment, combined with his daring courage, decided the fortune of the day, and brought him under the notice of one of the ablest of the early Revolu tionary Generals, Marceau, in whom, during his brief but brilliant career, he found an assiduous friend and patron. From this time to the peace of Amiens, Soult's military reputation daily increased. In 1794, he was made Ge neral of brigade, and in 1798, of division. We do not hear much of the aspiring young soldier during Napoleon's first campaigns in Italy—the most extraordinary and triumphant the world has ever known—for he was, we believe, serving at the time under Moreau in Germany. His name, however, was not un known to Buonaparte, who, after he had over thrown the feeble and dissolute Directory, and established the Consulate, inquired one day of Massena whether Soult deserved his high re putation. " Both for judgment - and courage," replied the veteran, " I can recommend him, as one who, in my opinion, has scarcely a su perior." The consequence of this honest praise was, that he was entrusted with the command of the Chasseurs of the Consular Guard, and honoured with the personal esteem of Napo leon, greatly to the annoyance of Berthier—a vain, inefficient man, who, wholly destitute of military qualities himself, could never behold without jealousy the homage which the Firs t Consul paid to such qualities in others. There are few of the existing generation who can remember the intense excitement -which the projected invasion of England created throughout the country, and, indeed, generally, on the Continent, about the commencement of the present century. A more feverish, ex citing period was never known. Men of all classes, ages, trades, and professions flew to arms. Militia bands, carefully disciplined and officered, were raised in every county ; the most munificent donations were freely given by pri vate individuals to Government ; loans to an almost incredible amount were obtained ; and from the peer in his palace to the peasant in his hut, herculean exertions were made by people of all ranks to hurl back the invasion with which France threatened us. In that country the agitation was equally great. There, nothing was talked of but the approaching cap ture and pillage of London, and the conversion of the British Monarchy into a Republic, after the most approved French fashion. Taking advantage—as was always his wont—of the na tional feeling in favour of invasion, Napoleon assembled the flower of his army at Boulogne, and placed Soult in command over it, as being the most skilful, if not the most victorious, of his Generals. In this situation the subject of our Memoir, knowing well the importance of the crisis, established a system of discipline severer than had ever been known to exist among the French troops. From sunrise to night-fall, and not unfrequently till midnight, he was on horseback, inspecting their various evolutions, or superintending on foot their labors in the intrenchments. Many of them complained of this exceeding zeal on the part of the General, and one day even Napoleon expressed an ap prehension that they would in the end sink under it. Soult replied, " Such as cannot with stand the fatigue which I support myself will r emain in the depots ; but such as do stand it, will be fit to undertake the conquest of the world." Every one knows how all these great military prepai ations ended. Scarcely had the invasion been three months under corsideration, than it was laid aside, and forever. The timely appearance of a British squadron in the Chan nel, aided by the dreaded name of Nelson, soon brought the French Government to rea son ; Soult and his troops were ordered off to Germany, to engage in that celebrated cam paign which terminated in the decisive victory of Austerlitz, and gave Pitt his death-blow ; but as France loves theatrit al effects; and rarely confesses to "a heavy blow and a great discouragement," a triumphal pillar was erected by order, of Buonaparte on the heights of Boulogne, in la'sting commemoration of the prodigious victories that Frenchmen would have achieved, if Englishmen would have permitted them. On the establishment of the empire, Soult, together with eighteen other Generals, was in. vested with the Marshal's truncheon —greatly to the satisfaction of the army, who knew and a ppreciated his rare military qualities. In the celebrated and decisive battle of Aus terlitz, he distinguished himself` by consummate skill and intrepidity—indeed proved himself inferior only to his great master. He Was in cessantly on the alertthrout.,Thout the night that preceded this dreadful conflict, while the re mainder of the camp was slumbering by its watch-fires about him ; and at day-break, when, amid cloud and fog, that brilliant sun broke forth which Napoleon so often after wards' apostrophised as the " sun of Auster litz," Soult was first in attendance at the Em peror's tent, to receive his final commands. " As for you, Marshal," said Buonap arte, in the presence of all his staff, " I have only to observe, act as you always do." That this high complitnent was not unmerited, the following characteristic anecdote will show. In the heat of the battle an aid-de-camp arrived with an o rder that he should instantly gain the heights of Pratzen. " I will obey the Emperor's com mands as soon as I can," answered tbe Mar shal, "but this is not the proper`time." . This kindled Buonapai te's rage, who despatched another aid-de-camp with a more 'peremptory m andate. , He arrived just as' Soult w as put ting' his"column in motion , The. manoeuvre, it appears, had,been delayed only because the Russians were' extending their line to the left, and so weakening their centre, which was in possession of the heights. Complete success attended, as might have been expected, the Marshal's attack. From the eminence on which he was stationed, Napoleon perceived at once the reason of Soult's delay, and the brilliaticy of. his movement. He instantly rode up to him, and before his whole staff, who but the moment before had heard him exclaiming violently against his dis obedience, said •' Marshal, I account you the ablest tactician in my empire." " I believe it, Sire," replied the other; who had always something of the courtier in his nature, " since your Majesty has had the goodness to tell me so." At another time, still in the heat of the battle, the Emperor exclaimed, " Marshal, you have covered your self with glory to-day; you have exceeded my expectations of you;" and shortly afterwards, when some of his Generals demanded fresh instructions, he replied, " Go and receive them from Marshal Soult he it is who directs the action." At Eylau Soult's services were equally valuable. At this place the French army was placed in a critical situation. Augereau had been defeated; the march of Davoust had been impeded; Nev and Bernadotte were at a distance ; thousands of the best of the French troops lay wounded or dead on the ground, while the enemy still maintained his position ; and the Emperor was so much discouraged by this combination of vexatious circumstances, that he wished to fall back, in order to effect a junction'with his other corps. But Soult's sagacity and foresight came to his aid in this emergency. " Beware of doing so, Sire," said the Marshal, " let us remain the last on the field,' and we shall have the honour of the day. From the observa tions I have been able to make, I suspect the enemy will retreat during the night." Napoleon complied with this suggestion, the wisdom of which was fully, justified by the event, and the Marshal was soon afterwards rewarded with the ducal fief of Dalmatia. • In the year 1808 Soult entered Spain. Here his first task was to pursue Sir John Moore, whom openly he harassed greatly in his retreat, but 7 h to attack until he reached Corunna. Under the walls of that c p i e t n .General, with the view of i t r b e e venti l n l g his embarkation ; but, after a e vigorously assailed the English a a sio ant Moore was killed, he was hard-fought battle, in which completely repulsed. On this occ g of his near, the spot the b French Marshal ShoWed the native generosity of his disposition, where he had fallen, a monument , in honour t y oward is conqueror. Nor was this his only chivalrous act of courtesy the battle of Corunna," says Col. Napier, in hiss an enemy. "At Majora mirably written history of the Peninsular war, " my brother,Napier, was wounded and made prisoner. He was returned among the killed. The morning after the action the Duke of Dalmatia, apprised of the Major's sitvation, had him conveyed to good quarters, g . and, with a kindness and consideration very uncommon, wrote to Napoleon desiring that his prisoner might not ,be . sent to France, which, from the System of refusing exchanges, would have, been destruction to his professional prospects. The Marshal, also obtained for the, drummer who' had saved him from being murdered by a French soldier, the decoration of the Legion of Honour. The events of the war obliged Soult to depart a few days afterwards from Corunna; but he recom- THE SUN, LONDON, SUNDAY, AUGUST 5, 1838. mended Major Napier to the attention of Ney, and that Marshal also treated his prisoner with all the kindness of a friend." Soult's next step was to invade Portugal. This task he set about with more than ordinary alacrity, for he is understood, in the event of Iris f e o s r fo theyrdln afterwards wereo consequence, engout madee tnhceen, success, to have been offered a portion of the kingdom in sove reignty. For some time his march was unresisted. The Portuguese ttwtheearattissct disciplined just einhee a dc s ka l n i t ki eg l offered little or no opposition, but looked on, without the power, or, without the o e f r s theirwcoll courage—for rc ah g invaders. eß—er Oporto and several other of the most important towns were captured and pillaged by the French. It is greatly to the credit of the t e dangerous apathy Por tuguesepeasantry, that they were the first to shake off h apathy which had seized upon the middle and higher of classes society. 111-armed and undisciplined as they were, they made every effort to check' the march of the French army. ,At length the British troops under Sir Arthur Wellesley advanced to theirassisfance "a d with such celerity that Marshal Soult was s ur p r i se d at the pas' and of the Douro; an d nearl y made p risoner in O p ort o. If we remember rightly, it is stated in the official dispatches lately published' by Colonel Gurwood , that the French General was com pelled to re treat in such haste , that he actuall y left his dinner 'unfinished on the table, which the British officers dispatched for him. After the signal defeat at Talavera, Soult hastened to effect a junction with Ney and Mortier, with a view to pursue Wellington, but the pursuit was not continued beyond the confines 'of Spain. On his return from this unavailing expedition he overran Andalusia and took Seville, but received a severe check before Cadiz. When Massena entered Portugal, Soult reduced Badajoz, and shortly after wards gave battle to Sir William Beresford, by whom he Was de feated. His brother-general was not more successful. Though " the favoured child of victory," as Napoleon always called him— sagacious, intrepid, cool'in the hour of battle, and never so muc h so as when the action was going against him, and the bullets were whistling about his ears like hail-stones ; deeply versed in war as a science, and prompt and fertile to a degree scarcely even,surpassed by the Emperor in his conceptions, -notwithstanding he Was thus highly accomplished as a soldier, yet Massena, like Soult, was com pelled to yield the ascendancy to Wellington. Defeat. followed de feat in rapid and startling succession. With the Spanish peasantry arrayed to a man against them; with the priests preaching a crusade against them ; and the light, active, guerilla bands harassing them at every opportunity—the situation of the French in Spain —even though Soult, Massena, Marmont, Mortier, and the. best of Napoleon's Gene rals in turn directed their operations—was the most dispiriting it was possible to conceive. On the fortunes, of the Emperor; in particu lar, the. Peninsular war had the most disastrous effect.' It distracted his thoughts—hampered his energies---erippled his means —and taught astonished and delighted Europe to feel that neither he nor his re nowned Marshals were the invincible spirits that they had so long been ripposed to be. The spell was broken, never ,again to work lits old influence. 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He was present at the great battle Of ntaltZell, where fortune bestowed almost her last s mile on the ~ foremost man of all the world ; news of the decisive defeat at Vittoria. This intelligence occa sioned " and at Dresden heard the Napoleon a world o f embarrassment . He saw that southern France was uncovered, and that it was necessary for him , without loss o f time, to send one of his ab l e st Marshals to check the career of the tr ium p hant Wellington. He accordingly summoned Soult into and ordered him instantly to return to Spain. B u t no • better fortune attended the Duke o f. D a lmatia on this, into h i s presence, was to relieve Pa m p eluna, but he was twice re p ulsed the hi s last campa i g n in the Peninsula, than on his former ones. His fi rs t e ffort a nd perceived that he could neither pievenethe invasion of no r retard for any length of time the advance of the Allies. yt reh; did not despair, nor relax in his endeavours to fulfil hi s instructions; but held out with unshrinking resolution to th e l ast . For su ccessive days he defended his intrenched camp at ycnne, with a skill and Austerlitz,;intreidy • worthy of the hero who had f o ught and conquered at he assailed the Allies furiously at Orthez, but was defeated and made his last desperate stand under the w alls of Toulouse , where h i s unlucky star again prevail e d. By this time the Imperial dynasty 'was at an end. The Prus. sians, the Austrians, the Russians, and even the wild Cossack from the banks of the Don and the' Wolga, were encamped in Paris ' • Napoleon had si g ned his abdication ; and the Bourbons after an exile of twenty years, during which they seemed to have learned nothing, and to have forgotten nothing, were again on the throne of France. Such being the state of affairs, Soult felt that he had no other resource left than to give in his adhesion to Louis, which he accordingly did, though, to his honour be it said, he was one of the last to desert the standard of his old master, and submit to the ne cessity of the times. The Bourbons who were well acquainted with his high and rare military : qualities, confirmed him in his rank and dignities ; en trusted him with the command of the thirteenth military divi sion oa n nf i s c t Be r y .O 0 at n ari ip, w ha a er . t r e . ,i; 1 a r e l rs e scha a w p le a , s s f sr i oi n tmt 1 p a o t Ei s o s ln e b s , a s m i o .ca n as m o t f eh t e h l ni i k s eoa again a c i t e n h , u'vsnc der-clap e e a r n n-gc e t l the . sion of Br ittan y ; and soon aPerwards , gave him the portfolio of King and his Courtiers fled at m id n i g h t i n t h e utmos t trepida ttiollihn.eohewneinFs frog', the Tuileries ; the Imperial - Eagle once more usurped the place of, the Bourbon Lilies ; and Soult, throwing up his alle giance to Louis, was persuaded to accept from Buonaparte the dignity of Peer and the functions of Major-General. In this last capacity he was present at the battle of Waterloo—that bloody conflict where, to adopt the forcible expression of Lannes, applied to Montebello, " bones were cracking in every division like hail rattling on a sky-light ;" and whose results were as fatal to the flower of the French army as was that of Roncesvalles, " When Charlemagne and all his peerage fell By Fontarabia." This event closed Soult's military, and for a time, his official career. Banished from France, he retired to the Duchy of Berg, his wife's native country, where he remained three years, occupying his leisure in the composition. of his own Memoirs, which, it is to be hoped, he will one day. give to the world. With his acknow ledged strength of understanding, his cool, dispassionate judgment, his varied experience, and his long, and intimate acquaintance with those illustrious military and political characters who, for the last twenty years and upwards,' have exercised so mighty an influence on the affairs of the Continent—we can conceive no personal Me moirs of so deeply interesting a nature, or so full of valuable materials for some future historian of the Revolution, the Consulate, and the Empire. In 1819, Soult received permission to return to France, and in the year 1821—Napoleon being then consigned to his rocky grave in St. Helena—his Marshal's baton was restored to him. From this time down to the period of • the expulsion of Charles the Tenth, he took little or no part in public zi ffairs ; but on the elevation of Louis Phillippe to the throne, he accepted a high post in the Ministry, the duties of which—and they were exceedingly onerous, and full of, dif ficulties, France being then in quite a volcanic state—he discharged with a zeal, a fearlessness, and an alacrity which were only to be exceeded by his discretion and sagacity. The Marshal is now in his sixty-ninth year. He is—as Allan Cunningham rightly says—" a noble, martial-featured man, tall and vigorous"—one of the most imposing relics of the empire—in deed almost the only remaining specimen of a race of military giants now fast passing away. The grand scenes, in which he has played so prominent a part are already matters of history—a cir cumstance which renders it impossible for even the most unreflecting person to behold him without emotion. His present visit to Eng land is a most auspicious one ; and will, we are sure, be attended with the happiest results to both countries. , It is a bow of promise to warn both nations that the season of storms has passed off from the horizon.' Why, indeed, should France and Great Britain hence-- forth be otherwise than in strict amity with each other ? They are foremost in the career of civilization ; they hold equal rank among the kingdoms of Europe; the desire to' obtain the blessings of an enlightened and well-regulated freedom is common to both of them ; and there is nothing in the history of the last tr emen d ous war, hat should prevent them entertaining the profoundest respect for each other. As.for Waterloo, "La jeune France" can scarcely cherish any rankling enmity to England on that score ; f or, since that event occurred, the principal actors—with one illustrious ex ception—have quitted the stage of life, and a new generation h as sprung up, imbued with far other feelings, and engrossed by far different interests. GENIUS, AN ODE BY MURDO YOUNG, Oh Genius I—soul of harmony, If in my bOsorn sleep thy fire, Awake it's flame to ecstacy, And sweep the, ravished lYre ! While emtilatiqn deems thy power Inspired front life's primeval hour, And glorying in his mental force, Pursues Ambition's daring course. Thou stimulus of mystic form, Still deeply felt though dimly seen, — Wild—in the soul-impassioned storm, And in the bosom-calm, serene. What mighty beings worship thee, Spirit of song and liberty 1 But ah, what votaries destroy Thy promise of immortal joy I Their aimless views the mental balance keep, Uneasy in suspense, or wavering half asleep- But come, thou bent of vigour's soul, Ambitious to attain the goal— Come, portion of celestial fire, Infused by nature's awful sire / Designed to burn, or less or ir,cre, As heaven instils the active power:- 'Tis inclination's potent vein, Enamoured of its vital course— That bursts restraint's obnoxious chain; Or sleeps indignant at its source. Ah, who would curb the fiery steed In emulation's eager speed ? Who would still love's first emotion ? Who arrest the rolling ocean ? Who would chain the wanton wind— Cramps the wild genius of the mind ! Blasts the rich promise of the vernal year, And clouds the sun of day in glory's glad career• In vain—the spirit will be free Though bends the frame in thraldrom's chain; And nature I never yet to thee Rose the blest song of liberty, So sweet as woke the captive's strain I Men heard—and blushed that they were nien,--.• Earth shall be free—and men rejoice. Do tyrants smile ?—'tis nature's voice. And Genius, in his visions high, Breathes freedom to posterity. Freedom ! what spirits bless thy sway, Immortal habitant c ind— And catch thy beauty from the day, Thy music from the wind. Till borne away by patriot zeal, Song breathes what they divinely feel-- And Genius, burning with seraphic flame, tl ,, Hymns to the ravished world the glory of ' 1 / name Behold in Hope's caressing arms, While yet her fond enthusiast slumbers-- He dreams of nature's—glory's charms-- And wakes to breathe in numbers. But who will hear his friendless lay, Who dare the modest youth approve ?' The world is mute.—He turns away While envy tears the laurel'd bay By fancy's fairy fingers wove 1 Pale scorn, how bitter is thy love 1 Thy cold compassion, who would boar? But Genius spurns the world—to rove Through indignation's twilight grove, And shed the burning tear. Day breaks—shall he return again, To mingle with the herd of men ? And struggle in starvation's field For laurels which they blush to yield? No I—but the feeble wants of nature crav e ' He weeps for Chatterton—and finds them . grave 1 Oh world ungrateful as thou art, Why, why withhold poor merit's claira--. When splendour wins thy selfish heart, To glory in thy shame 1 But who would bend the humble knee, To thine abhorred hypocrisy ? That slave shall merit thy regard,— But not the poet's bright reward, — Whose proud devotion woos to be Espoused to immortality 1 Fond child of hope ! what dreams employ Thy spirit in the realms of joy ! To range the deep expanse of night, Or hail the rainbow-dawn of Or see instruction's page sublime, Emblazoned on the wings of time. Muse of genius! w!ldly strong, And richly various glows thy song_ Enamoured still of nature's beauteous for►n' Delight sails on the breeze, or rapture mount' the storm. Who but Genius framed the lyre, And bade enthusiasm sweep the string— When music wrapt the soul on fae, And set the foot on wing ! Behold in fancy's magic ring, What charmed passions move ! See pride forget disaster's sting— Ambition dance,—and sorrow sing In harmony with. love. Or mark the pencil's witching grace, Make beauty dearer to the heart, Or sculpture, breathing loveliness, From inspiration's chisel start. Oh power of Genius ever hail In modesty's angelic veil. But why, alas! should nature hide, In vesture meek, her darling pride ? Ah 1 why with promise bright adorn The dawn of life's prophetic morn, And damp the summer of its years, 011° With pale misfortune's sighs, and sorr ow's guished tears ? VII. Why feels the Genius of the soul Adversity's supreme controul Why ?—but to prove man's might the 110 rj ' In life's rough path—so smooth before And strengthen, by his triumph there, Worth, friendless, struggling with desPalf* Thou stepdame of unfavoured youth, Adversity, rude nurse of truth ! The proudest spirit bends to thee, With stern, yet deep humility,— Till from his heart in anguish steal The tear his cheek disdains to feel I But salutary virtues arm The torments of thy powerful charm. Else how should Homer's genius glow In pale starvation's wildest throe, — And pour the universal strain, That boasts unrivalled worth in glory's brig btegt fane. VIII. Oh 1 rapture of the brilliant flame, Impelling modesty to fame, May never indolence enslave The spirit can misfortune brave ; Nor luxury's voluptuous boon• Enerve the vigour of his noon ; Nor uniformity destroy The wildness of poetic joy I Let wanton fancy shift the scene Congenial to the nl:five vein. But ah I ye friends to genius dear, Encourage modesty's career, Nor let ingratitude of scorn Blast promise in its blushing morn ; Nor approbation too profuse Wake vanity to tame the muse : But give, ye friends, to genuine merit gi.v° So much of true desert as bids ambition 11°. Alas ! and must our nature own • That merit lives—hut dies unknown. The cypress binds his burniri,g brow, Till death the laurel crown bestow. And was it so in Greece ?—ln Rome ?---* Yes, Genius, and must be thy doom-- As down thou sail'st the stream of life, With all its elements at strife ; And when thy bark is buried deep, Will envy be the first to weep Accursed inheritance of worth— To shame the land that boasts his birth And glories in his rnem,,ry_ As Spain, Cervantes! joys in thee-- And England, art thou, too, unjust ? Oh wake not Illilton's—Bu.w. oust; Whence indignation we.iping turns to thf Where Scotia's bl us h ing pr id e Poiri ts tomb of Burns • The + o catholic clergy of the not them district of Engl°_,liiil number of deaths a mongs. d 0 life have been car . . ' tr:ly • awful. • Within the space of eighteen froioinie °f en . ty•five priests, most of them in the veryy ,_,,ir ried away in the mi labours. •• •t al A maYria between the Fleredi . ge ig Prince of 0 —range and a Princoss of WurtcndWar to confidently sptlen of in the Dutch Papers, a n official announcement is looked for in a few fig s ' ,f f t, AIARSEIAL SOTJLT AND Tiff.; I:si,s fist of tit.. TROPOLITAN FOLICF.•—The veteran Marshal 5...°:,1,,,1 prior to his recent departure from this country, C a . ,. ~e a letter, with his Signature attached thereto' 0t'.11,, forwarded to the Commissioners of the MetroP 'Io Police at Sc ft land.yard, in which communicationbigt distinguished foreigner alluded to expressed lII' _ vi a . satisfaction at the excellent conduct and g ood u f 00 of every member of the force, by whorl/ he "_ c a nte so many occasions, during his sojourn in Lou in his visits to other places in the environs t been attended. I t I Jlllo°-